Alright, just thought as a candidate you might have heard something by now. I'm really curious to see what they plan to do.

From what I can tell, you and Aeon appear to be our top contenders this year. Obviously anything can happen, but I'd say you two are looking the most secure out of all of the candidates from what I can glean from those I know who feel they still have a stake in this game. Keep up the good work.

Voting is in many ways about who votes. In a game or otherwise those who actually vote tend to be a minority.
In this case (unlike IRL politics) there is every reason to represent everyone rather than focus on some select sub-group so in theory (time will tell if this works in practice) being open to communicating with everyone is the most effective idea, not just for votes but for actually doing the job if elected.

At minimum I want to make sure that I'm an effective candidate. If I am then should I not be elected I've done some good work. On the other hand if I'm divisive, deaf to the community or adversarial then even if I am elected I won't be contributing positively to the process.

"Lone Wolf'ing" is often bad practice in Dust, but it's worse practice for a member of the CPM.
Whoever is ultimately selected to fill those seven seats I hope they keep a firm focus on Good of the game > personal play style or preferences of any single player sub-group

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P.S. Vote for me

As Xel correctly points out communicating with CCP is about more than the feedback section. Being sure CCP is aware of threads and ideas within the feedback section is relevant of course, but the forums in their entirety aren't the whole player base and even if they were that lacks first had perspective.

When cats like Soraya and I speak of being a conduit for communication with the community we're talking about more than pointing a CCP Dev to a thread or link and saying "hey guy, read that".
It's about condensing quality feedback from multiple sources and providing a TL;DR (with links) for CCP quick action. It's being in the game playing and then interacting (not just with CCP or CPM members) about what we see first hand to test it.
It's keeping in mind various separate ideas and how they could effect each other to fit desired improvements into the game together and it's pushing all that through the added perspective of the NDA, then back out in as a complete (non-NDA breaking) form as possible to the community.

The CPM, in it's most effective form is about more than a single game aspect, and does more than simply index ideas or ping CCP when a thread pops up. I spend most of my forum time in the Feedback section and have since closed beta. I've always posted and bumped threads that need CCP attention and still do currently (for example) but there are conversations with players which happen in other forum sections, on Skype, via in game mail, in squads, etc etc
There's testing, spreadsheets, videos and more that push ideas. This is all stuff I (and many CPM candidates) are already part of and have been for a long time.

So if we're already doing so much for the game why elected us? What makes any of us as CPM members more effective than what we're already doing?
As Soraya says, it allows us the access and information to have those conversations with CCP that cannot take place in a public venue, ensure that those discussions take place at all, and then bring as much of them as we're able back to the community.

To my knowledge no one running for CPM is avoiding talking about the meaning or function of the CPM, there is simply little point in rehashing what has already been stated by CCP.
Even in your above quote you state that CCP caring about the feedback section would be amazing, that getting them to maintain involvement there would be of value, well, CPMs have a higher than average level of communication with the Devs so being a member of the CPM affords the opportunity to draw CCPs attention to those posts in Features and Ideas Discussion in a way non of the candidates will be able to do otherwise, so even your post asking the purpose of the CPM provides one aspect of the answer to that very question.

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Cheers Long Evity,
Feel free to keep the questions (and any relevant thread links ) coming. I may not always have an answer to everything but I'm happy to provide my best efforts to field the question regardless (and as to links, well I find the feedback section interesting even when I don't have anything new/specific to add to a particular thread I read significantly more threads there than I have posts to make).

Speaking of boundaries in community communication, each candidate elected to a CPM seat will have vastly more value if they (hopefully we ) are able to earn sufficient trust from the community that we can be active points of community interaction. A CPM that isn't trusted will be vastly inferior in value to one that is trusted, but the office and forum tag do not magically bestow trust that's something each of us has to earn (as much as possible before the elections so we're effective from day 1). Questions like yours allow us the opportunity to present our views and understandings to the community, and hopefully build that trust. So thanks again for asking.

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